Top 100 Broken Heart Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The heart was made to be broken.”

— Oscar Wilde

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2. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

— Khalil Gibran

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3. “If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

— Oswald Chambers

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4. “It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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5. “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”

— Khalil Gibran

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6. “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”

— Rumi

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7. “Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak. Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.”

— Taylor Swift

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8. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

— Anonymous

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9. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

— Rumi

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10. “There’s never a right time to say goodbye.”

— Chris Brown

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11. “If you love something, let it go. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”

— Cecelia Ahern

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

12. “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.”

— Richard Bach

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13. “I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

14. “You only know you love her when you let her go.”

— Passenger

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15. “Tears are words the heart can’t express.”

— Gerard Way

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16. “To love at all is to be vulnerable.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Caring Quotes, Love You Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

17. “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

— Charles Dickens

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18. “Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.”

— Rumi

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19. “I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”

— Franz Kafka

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20. “A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.”

— Taylor Swift

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21. “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”

— Jane Austen

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22. “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

— Emily Dickinson

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23. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.”

— A. A. Milne

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24. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

— Anaïs Nin

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25. “You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.”

— Johnny Depp

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26. “There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”

— Neil Gaiman

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27. “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”

— Mitch Albom

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Moving Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Book Quotes About Love

28. “I’m not alone, but I am lonely without you.”

— Mary Martin

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29. “My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive – I’ll find love again.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Romantic Quotes, Love Is Quotes

30. “Be brave enough to break your own heart.”

— Cheryl Strayed

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31. “The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart – hearts are made to be broken – but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

— Oscar Wilde

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32. “If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more.”

— Anonymous

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33. “Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.”

— Khalil Gibran

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34. “A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went.”

— Beth Moore

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35. “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Love Hurts Quotes

36. “Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces.”

— Drake

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37. “If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Heartbreak Quotes, Toxic People Quotes

38. “Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.”

— Flavia Weedn

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39. “Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”

— Bob Pierce

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40. “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”

— Joni Mitchell

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes, Longing Quotes, Quotes About Songs

41. “My heart is so tired.”

— Markus Zusak

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Sad Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Tired Quotes

42. “A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.”

— Leo Buscaglia

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Care Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

43. “A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

44. “Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Loss Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Depression Quotes

45. “Do you believe in life after love?”

— Cher

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Silly Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Quotes About Songs

46. “Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can’t stop loving you.”

— Bryan Adams

Also featured in: Romantic Quotes, Longing Quotes, Quotes About Songs, I Love You Quotes for Her

47. “Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I’ve got nothing but my aching soul?”

— Lana Del Rey

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48. “The heart wants what it wants.”

— Woody Allen

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49. “In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”

— Nicholas Sparks

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50. “Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”

— Gary Zukav

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